Full Moon in Libra: Relating
Under the Pressure of Performance
Moon opposite Sun @ 7:36am CDT on 3-31-18
Welcome to the second, and final, blue moon of our
year! As it
was at the end of January, this is another social ‘blue moon’…significant only to
the calendar month (which is a more modern way of tracking time than the stars
or the seasons). The ‘once in a blue moon’ advice still applies, though
it is less of a cosmic urge (blue moon within the same sign) or a biological
urge (blue moon in a particular season)…and more of a subtle, societal
opportunity that can arise.
This Full Moon is primarily influenced by Mercury
Retrograde in Aries, since the Interior Conjunction of Sun and Mercury will be
the next day (April 1st).
During these inner planet retrograde conjunctions, the planet is always
closest to Earth. With Mercury in close
proximity to us, mercurial energy has a potent effect on our world…and
especially on our minds (the personal mind, the collective mind, and the Mother
Mind of our Earth). The archetype of the
Aries Mercury Mind could be defined as the Mental Motivator. New ideas are forming like seeds from the
fruit of the last Mercury cycle. Aries
can be a spicy seed, no doubt, as it is the first of the fire signs.
Sweet or spicy, this pepper seed within the Aries Mercury
cycle means to motivate some mental action during this shift. Whatever it is that you need to do at this
time (and Eris will make sure that you honor it or she’ll chuck a ‘Golden
Apple’ at your head), this Mercury energy is meant to encourage and inspire you
to blaze your trail. How it does that is
actually more up to you, personally, than some astrologers you’ve read might
project. Do you want to get this Mercury
lesson from Heyokah…who teaches through humor and opposites? Tap into the Fool archetype and enjoy it this
April Fool’s Day. Would it work best for
you through Thoth…the ‘voice of Ra’, creator of language, and patron of the
written word? That’s my go to, of
course. If that resonates for you, write
your rapid-fire, inspired thoughts this weekend. Is Jesus your go to guy? Connect with the phoenix-like rebirth of this
Easter weekend and rebirth yourself along your spiritual path. I was born on an Easter Sunday, so even
though I’m only connected to Christianity through the paths of others that I
love…I do resonate with the Phoenix/Butterfly totem medicine that permeates the
collective consciousness of this season.
There are many more beneficial teachers of this mercurial medicine, and
if you resonate with one…set your intention with them to be inspired and
transformed from the inside out.
So, this Full Moon in Libra is our pre-show to this big
Mercury transformation…setting the stage with a luminous spotlight day and
night. The players are many, though
Retrograde Mercury has a lead role in this.
The conflict of the cosmic storyline comes from Saturn and Mars in
Capricorn, the Wise One and the Worldly Warrior (like Felix and Oscar in ‘The
Odd Couple’ in some ways). Some
astrologers might focus on these two as ‘malefics’…and their version of the
show might sound a little more ‘doom and gloom’ than it has to be. Remember the Fool archetype of this season,
and lighten things up as a counter balance.
It is truly a Divine Comedy playing out, and when we fail to see the
humor in our oppositions…we can color a whole event through an unnecessarily
depressing lens. Just because it’s a
Blue Moon doesn’t mean the gels on the stage lights need to cast a dark blue
glow…bright blue might be a better choice if you want the effect to be more
awe-inspiring.
The cosmic storyline of this Divine Comedy teaches us how
to relate with opposites. Full Moons do
this in general, but when they are on the Aries-Libra axis…it illuminates the
essence of our relationship between Self and Other. And because Mercury is the star of this show
(in the spotlight of our star, the Sun)…the dialogue of the script is key. Appreciate the comic timing of it all, and it
may inspire you to laugh and learn to change your mind all at once. Get swept up in the drama, and you could have
a very different interpretation of the show.
It really is up to us to enjoy it or not.
In your own personal show inspired by it, you might forget
your lines or trip on your fellow actor’s performance…but you might also be
able to save the show even with the mishaps, if you play it right. The Aries energy of Sun-Mercury gives you the
encouragement to understand your role, your character, within your personal
performance as well as the collective production. However, it is the Moon in Libra that insists
we get outside of ourselves and relate to our fellow actors and the collective
audience. The symbols of this celestial
show will give us clues along the way as to what we might glean from the story.
Moon in 11 Libra: An
Aside to the Audience
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Cuthbert Binns, Hogwarts' History of Magic professor,
was unaware that he had died long ago and just continued to teach.
"I teach the facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends."
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The Sabian Symbol of the Moon’s degree is “a professor
peering over his glasses at his students”.
This image presents the necessity to transmit knowledge to a new
generation of thinkers and seekers. In
this symbol, the glasses are key. These
glasses allude to the strain on sight that so much knowledge (from reading) can
lead to. So here we have a professor
with a wealth of knowledge to pass on to younger generations, but he can only
really ‘see’ his students by looking away from his book or notes and out into
where his students are. This is about an
ability to relate to others, though our knowledge can sometimes set us apart or
distance ourselves from others as well. This
technological age is like that blessing/curse conundrum brought up here. It helps us to relate our knowledge to many
diverse groups of people while being very inwardly drawn in this retrograde
energy…but it also separates us from people at the same time. Essentially, a boring lecture on whatever
your most pressing topic is will not connect to others. How best to engage an audience? Tell a story that makes them think and
feel…move them and motivate them. And
that brings us to the Aries energy of this time.
Sun in 11 Aries: The Emperor Stripped Bare in the Spotlight
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"The President has the finest clothes, made of the best fabrics.
The media just unfairly reports on it."
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The Sabian Symbol of the Sun’s degree is “the ruler of a
nation”. Here’s my story of this
symbolism: There once was a beautiful
notion of the Sovereignty of the land.
In order for anyone to rule upon
the land, they had to have a respectful relationship with Lady
Sovereignty. Rulers were wiped out or
usurped if this relationship was lacking.
This notion was widely accepted and honored, for a time anyway. Fast-forward to present day rulership,
though, and we are often left wondering where that relationship was lost. Conflict after conflict arises because of
this lack of reverence toward the land and the lives upon it. The greedy few are often in control of the
masses as well as the land’s resources.
For as long as we’ve all been alive, we’ve seen how this kind of
‘rulership’ plays out, accruing more and more damage over many cycles of the
same old thing. Now, you can apply this
story of Sovereignty both collectively as well as personally. Collectively, it is inspiring more and more
people to either fight this fire with raging fire, drown it out with the water
of compassion, fan the flames with the air of their displeasure, or ground it
down into the earth with 6:20 minutes of reverent silence for those who have
taken unnecessary hits in the madness of our modern times. It is hard to find any humor in what is
happening here in our own nation, but evoking laughter is not actually the
superobjective of a comedy. The purpose
is actually, much like Heyokah medicine, to teach by uncovering the truth in
opposition.
On the individual level, this can translate to you as a
question that brings about a necessary decision: “How am I relating?” The answer is, at once, the intention for
this next cycle…and it begins with the Aries phrase followed by the Libra
phrase “I am…and I relate…” So, how DO you
relate your self-expression to others? Mercury
Retrograde in Aries reminds us to “BE the change”. After all, the only ones we can truly rule are
ourselves.
Mercury Rx in 13 Aries:
A Comedy of Errors
The Sabian Symbol of Mercury’s degree is ‘a bomb fails to
explode’. This symbol carries the
essence of divine comic timing that is often apparent in Mercury Retrogrades. We planned this thing, and then it doesn’t
work out…but why? I like to use this
example to highlight the nature of this occurrence (because it has manifested
this way on the mundane level for me many times). Something happens that makes you late for work/an
appointment/a meeting…even in all of your rushing it seems you are ‘doomed’ to
be late (red lights, slow traffic, etc.)…and then you notice there is an
accident ahead of you. Being just a bit
earlier may have put you in line to get hit in that moment. For some reason, and for the personal mishaps
that caused your delay, a worse crisis may have been averted. A symbolic ‘bomb fails to explode’ and you
realize that being late could have been the least of your troubles. You can realize, in such moments, patience is
needed…rushing can result in accidents.
Of course, you can also look at it as another thing to make you more
late, but that’s not an outlook that will help you understand much of what’s
playing out. This degree of Aries, there
is an element of flipping a coin in every situation. Prosperity or destruction? Especially with Mars and Saturn squaring off
against this energy, impulsivity and caution are both in the mix. However, the energy does suggest a sense of
momentary peace and protection…or even lucking out. Unless you’re the one trying to ‘drop the
bomb’, I guess…in which case, your expectations might not come to
fruition. As it was in the last full
moon where this symbol was highlighted (last October), planned out preparations
are not the way of this energy. There is
a larger story pushing for us, the characters, to be in other situations than
where we thought we’d be focusing. The plot
thickens as the Author/Playwright brings even the readers/audience to an
unexpected turn of events. If something
doesn’t go as planned, there is likely a more pressing situation that will need
to be defused elsewhere in your life.
This Comedy of Errors has much to do with social relationships, the kind
where they may be thrust into crisis for the purpose of stripping down the
unnecessary forms they have taken on over time...thus confronting the usual laws
and social norms to reveal a higher state of awareness of self and others. I wish you well on each crisis narrowly
averted!
Of note is that Mercury Retrograde meets with the Aries Sun
the next day in the symbol between the two described here. In Aries 12, the Sabian Symbol is ‘a
triangularly shaped flight of wild geese’.
So while the scene is set at the full moon for a distinctly
socio-political Comedy of Errors, the planetary play concludes the following
day with an image of cosmic order. Just
like most comedies, filled with human error and ridiculous mishaps, we are
often brought to a sense of everything working out before the curtain
closes. The main difference between
comedy and tragedy, after all, is how the characters respond to conflict. The same conflicts of a comedy can be played
out in a tragedy, and vice versa, and the tone is different based on the response
to the upsets that arise…thus leading to either the happy ending or the tragic
one. There will certainly be pressure to
perform pooling into the T-square of Mars-Saturn in Capricorn, but there are
some very fortunate opportunities that can arise from the flowing aspects of
the lunar nodes. This weekend, you may
be able to see how the aspects of fate (lunar nodes) can be improvised with your own free will choices of how you respond to them. The energy triggered in Capricorn by our luminary
axis this Full Moon is pushing us to respond wisely under pressure.
Love and Gratitude,
Felina Lune Kavi
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